NAME¶

xauth_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the xauth processes

DESCRIPTION¶

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the xauth processes via flexible mandatory access control.

The xauth processes execute with the xauth_t SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier.

For example:

ps -eZ | grep xauth_t

ENTRYPOINTS¶

The xauth_t SELinux type can be entered via the xauth_exec_t file type.

The default entrypoint paths for the xauth_t domain are the following:

/usr/bin/xauth, /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth

PROCESS TYPES¶

SELinux defines process types (domains) for each process running on the system

You can see the context of a process using the -Z option to ps

Policy governs the access confined processes have to files. SELinux xauth policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their xauth processes in as secure a method as possible.

The following process types are defined for xauth:

xauth_t

Note: semanage permissive -a xauth_t can be used to make the process type xauth_t permissive. SELinux does not deny access to permissive process types, but the AVC (SELinux denials) messages are still generated.

BOOLEANS¶

SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. xauth policy is extremely flexible and has several booleans that allow you to manipulate the policy and run xauth with the tightest access possible.

If you want to allow all domains to use other domains file descriptors, you must turn on the allow_domain_fd_use boolean. Enabled by default.

setsebool -P allow_domain_fd_use 1

If you want to allow confined applications to run with kerberos, you must turn on the allow_kerberos boolean. Enabled by default.

setsebool -P allow_kerberos 1

If you want to allow sysadm to debug or ptrace all processes, you must turn on the allow_ptrace boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P allow_ptrace 1

If you want to allow system to run with NIS, you must turn on the allow_ypbind boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P allow_ypbind 1

If you want to allow all domains to have the kernel load modules, you must turn on the domain_kernel_load_modules boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P domain_kernel_load_modules 1

If you want to allow all domains to execute in fips_mode, you must turn on the fips_mode boolean. Enabled by default.

setsebool -P fips_mode 1

If you want to enable reading of urandom for all domains, you must turn on the global_ssp boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P global_ssp 1

If you want to allow confined applications to use nscd shared memory, you must turn on the nscd_use_shm boolean. Enabled by default.

setsebool -P nscd_use_shm 1

If you want to support NFS home directories, you must turn on the use_nfs_home_dirs boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P use_nfs_home_dirs 1

If you want to support SAMBA home directories, you must turn on the use_samba_home_dirs boolean. Disabled by default.

setsebool -P use_samba_home_dirs 1

MANAGED FILES¶

The SELinux process type xauth_t can manage files labeled with the following file types. The paths listed are the default paths for these file types. Note the processes UID still need to have DAC permissions.

cifs_t

initrc_tmp_t

mnt_t

/mnt(/[^/]*)
/mnt(/[^/]*)?
/rhev(/[^/]*)?
/media(/[^/]*)
/media(/[^/]*)?
/etc/rhgb(/.*)?
/media/.hal-.*
/net
/afs
/rhev
/misc

nfs_t

tmp_t

/tmp
/usr/tmp
/var/tmp
/tmp-inst
/var/tmp-inst
/var/tmp/vi.recover

user_home_t

/home/[^/]*/.+
/home/staff/.+

user_tmp_t

/tmp/gconfd-.*
/tmp/gconfd-staff

xauth_home_t

/root/.Xauth.*
/root/.xauth.*
/root/.serverauth.*
/var/lib/pqsql/.xauth.*
/var/lib/pqsql/.Xauthority.*
/var/lib/nxserver/home/.xauth.*
/var/lib/nxserver/home/.Xauthority.*
/home/[^/]*/.xauth.*
/home/[^/]*/.Xauthority.*
/home/[^/]*/.serverauth.*
/home/staff/.xauth.*
/home/staff/.Xauthority.*
/home/staff/.serverauth.*

xauth_tmp_t

xdm_tmp_t

/tmp/.X11-unix(/.*)?
/tmp/.ICE-unix(/.*)?
/tmp/.X0-lock

xdm_var_run_t

/usr/lib(64)?/qt-.*/etc/settings(/.*)?
/var/run/[gx]dm.pid
/etc/kde3?/kdm/backgroundrc
/var/run/kdm(/.*)?
/var/run/gdm(/.*)?
/var/run/slim.*
/var/run/lxdm(/*.)?
/var/run/slim(/.*)?
/var/run/xauth(/.*)?
/var/run/xdmctl(/.*)?
/var/run/lxdm.pid
/var/run/lxdm.auth
/var/run/gdm_socket

FILE CONTEXTS¶

SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file type.

You can see the context of a file using the -Z option to ls

Policy governs the access confined processes have to these files. SELinux xauth policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their xauth processes in as secure a method as possible.

STANDARD FILE CONTEXT

SELinux defines the file context types for the xauth, if you wanted to store files with these types in a diffent paths, you need to execute the semanage command to sepecify alternate labeling and then use restorecon to put the labels on disk.

semanage fcontext -a -t xauth_tmp_t '/srv/myxauth_content(/.*)?'
restorecon -R -v /srv/myxauth_content

Note: SELinux often uses regular expressions to specify labels that match multiple files.

The following file types are defined for xauth:

xauth_exec_t

- Set files with the xauth_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the xauth_t domain.

Paths:

/usr/bin/xauth, /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth

xauth_home_t

- Set files with the xauth_home_t type, if you want to store xauth files in the users home directory.

Paths:

/root/.Xauth.*, /root/.xauth.*, /root/.serverauth.*, /var/lib/pqsql/.xauth.*, /var/lib/pqsql/.Xauthority.*, /var/lib/nxserver/home/.xauth.*, /var/lib/nxserver/home/.Xauthority.*, /home/[^/]*/.xauth.*, /home/[^/]*/.Xauthority.*, /home/[^/]*/.serverauth.*, /home/staff/.xauth.*, /home/staff/.Xauthority.*, /home/staff/.serverauth.*

xauth_tmp_t

- Set files with the xauth_tmp_t type, if you want to store xauth temporary files in the /tmp directories.

Note: File context can be temporarily modified with the chcon command. If you want to permanently change the file context you need to use the semanage fcontext command. This will modify the SELinux labeling database. You will need to use restorecon to apply the labels.

COMMANDS¶

semanage fcontext can also be used to manipulate default file context mappings.

semanage permissive can also be used to manipulate whether or not a process type is permissive.

semanage module can also be used to enable/disable/install/remove policy modules.

semanage boolean can also be used to manipulate the booleans

system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux policy settings.

AUTHOR¶

This manual page was auto-generated using sepolicy manpage .

SEE ALSO¶

selinux(8), xauth(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1) , setsebool(8)